Hacker News: dangoodmanUT

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "ZapFast: A fast, native WhatsApp client in Rust and egui"

dangoodmanUT — Sun, 08 Nov 2026 05:13:37 +0000

it seems like we're entering the next phase of "written in rust": UIs

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "A Jev that can ask Opus for help gives Opus accuracy at 4x lower cost"

dangoodmanUT — Fri, 06 Nov 2026 21:07:00 +0000

We've been doing this for a while. Fine tuning the decision model helps a lot too. The problem is you still need a pretty low confidence threshold (e.g 10%), but often times that reduces the work by 70% with 0% quality loss (in our benchmarks)

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed"

dangoodmanUT — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:25:10 +0000

this is often a worse time-to-patch

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "Trigger.dev customer environment variables exposed"

dangoodmanUT — Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:24:13 +0000

As I mentioned in the Northflank breach post:

Unfortunately for infra startups, I think we're going to see a convergence back to hyperscalers as a result of incidents like this and railway.

There's no amount of "nicer to use" that can replace security, at least certainly when selling to enterprises

Also, a trick i've started doing is encrypting my env vars, then hard-code the decryption key in the code

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "Why Anthropic's filing crushed tech stocks"

dangoodmanUT — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:13:23 +0000

If they're referring to the recent tumble, I wouldn't suggest anthropic incited that

coreweave did

i'm sure ant didn't help, but thanks for the fire sale i guess

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "Northflank Breached"

dangoodmanUT — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:10:58 +0000

it's not obscurity if they don't have the key, it's encrypted (yes i know quantum computers)

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "Northflank Breached"

dangoodmanUT — Sat, 31 Oct 2026 13:09:17 +0000

It's more secure to let a cloud push immediate patches than to self host in most cases (cloudflare has always been good about this, e.g. php and log4j)

the problem is owning hardware is hard

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "Northflank Breached"

dangoodmanUT — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 20:53:40 +0000

A trick i've started doing is encrypting my env vars, then hard-code the decryption key in the code

that way if the provider gets popped, they need my binary to decrypt it

it shouldn't be necessary and it sounds stupid, but in cases like this, it proves invaluable (it appears they don't have customer code/binary access, but maybe that wasn't important enough to mention)

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "Northflank Breached"

dangoodmanUT — Fri, 30 Oct 2026 15:43:44 +0000

Unfortunately for infra startups, I think we're going to see a convergence back to hyperscalers as a result of incidents like this and railway.

There's no amount of "nicer to use" that can replace security, at least certainly when selling to enterprises

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "DoorDash to Buy Instacart for $17B, Uniting 2 Delivery Giants"

dangoodmanUT — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 12:40:13 +0000

"tk is gonna be pissed" you hear echoing in an SF bluebottle

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "MacBook Pro with PROLED XDR Display and Touch"

dangoodmanUT — Thu, 29 Oct 2026 00:05:06 +0000

One of the many reasons i preferred mac is because they never tried to force touchscreens on to people

ive never seen someone use a laptop touch screen effectively

just get an ipad

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "The Agent SDK"

dangoodmanUT — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 15:31:57 +0000

I attribute this to "it's so new and we don't know what the right answer is yet", but you may very well be right

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "JetBrains Thinkrail"

dangoodmanUT — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 23:00:09 +0000

It's nice to see JetBrains finally wake up and realize they can't sell a Cursor competitor from 2024 anymore. Something about JetBrains writing a new IDE seems bold... not sure if it feels correct.

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "Show HN: UI micro interactions prompts for AI"

dangoodmanUT — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 18:14:24 +0000

Some of these are objectively bad: buttons should not resize for spinners, etc. otherwise the whole website layout can shift

but the animations are nice

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "Today, we hacked what we'd set out to hack: the iPhone"

dangoodmanUT — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 17:19:35 +0000

so i see we're still going with the apocalypse today too

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents"

dangoodmanUT — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:57:01 +0000

imo if you're going to run k8s, have it hosted

same as a db, better to pay #x as much and have it hosted then to be wishing it was not your problem when it was down

and we may very well live in different versions of the world. i'm on the frontlines of startups so we move with the customer, rather than making customers move with us

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents"

dangoodmanUT — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:54:53 +0000

its not reading, its observation. see other comment abt spiky-friendly workloads

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents"

dangoodmanUT — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 00:54:15 +0000

schedulers that can handle spikier workloads generally

believe me i love k8s, and i think agents wield it amazingly well, no more yaml-slop or kubectl (`k`) slop, just yell at claude to fix it

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "OpenShell – A safe, private runtime for fleets of autonomous AI agents"

dangoodmanUT — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 18:21:04 +0000

Taking default telemetry is insane.

That aside, the level of control is cool, almost too pedantic. It likely is only particularly useful for very nuanced enterprise requirements (probably what it's targeting). Most companies can be much more coarse with their permissions, and I think the agentic industry is moving away from k8s as a deployment platform.

New comment by dangoodmanUT in "SBD: We Have a Filesystem at Home"

dangoodmanUT — Thu, 22 Oct 2026 14:19:49 +0000

I really like fly.io posts, they're usually written in such a way that feels so human. I used to read all of them, because the writing was interesting, and secondarily sometimes the topic was.

Except seeing sentences like this:

> The difference is that a Sprite now stops and says so instead of carrying on with a disk it can’t vouch for

Makes it feel distinctly LLM written. Maybe I'm being RL'd to identify LLM authorship, maybe the author was RL'd to write like that by reading so many Claude-written works, but I'd like to see the humanity of fly.io blog posts come back.